Well, sadly I was mistaken on how the power runs for my laser. I knew that physically the only way it could possibly work is pulsing the full power… but I held out hope that maybe I could simulate a lower power laser.
Anyway. My 60W is indeed always going to cut at 60W capability, it just does that for less than all the time when I set lower percent powers. So I cannot test what a 45W can cut by just running at 75%.
Oh well, thanks for trying!
@jacobturner, are you using an RF laser (metal tube like epilog), glass tube like glowforge, or somethign else like a fiber laser? If it’s a glass co2 laser, you should be able to dial back the power in CW operation.
Glass tube CO2 laser. I had skimmed the specs on the system and concluded it was DC excited, so assumed from there it probably offered variable continuous wave output. But when I checked for verification with the guy who set up the software he said it was pulsed.
Taking the word of a student may not have worked for me in this case. So I guess back to the original plan of using an ammeter or Oscope to watch the power signal.
